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"People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors."	Mark Duffy
"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age."	Nadia Boulanger
"Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey."	Nicholson
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."	Noam Chomsky
"It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."	Otto von Bismarck
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win."	Paul Jones
"A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."	Primo Levi
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received."	Richard Jordan
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."	Robert Burns
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."	Robert Lee Frost
"State problems should involve state solutions."	Ronald Reagan
"The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay."	Ronald Reagan
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."	Sir Francis Bacon
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